Who would have thunk it? This is not new news. Culprit: blue/ pink. Don’t scoff. There lies the start and core of gender roles/ norms training. Emphasis added as always.
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The Global Early Adolesc...

#womenslives: She writes about a disturbing, familiar pattern:
Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an ina...

As a female scientist, I have had my fair share of misogynistic experiences. Some of them were covert attempts to remind me of my pre-determined role, while others were more flagrant. My male post-d...

Women shoulder a disproportionately large workload at home in ways that might disadvantage them professionally. But are female professors also “taking care of the academic family” via disproportiona...

In two previous posts published online at the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Blog (FWSA) (one, two) I discussed women’s status in psychology. First I looked at the underrepresentation of wom...

(Posted with permission from the author from the FWSA blog.)
In a previous post at the FWSA blog I discussed the underrepresentation of women as authors of articles in academic psychology journals. I...

For some time now, women have been statistically underrepresented in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.This trend is particularly troubling, as STEM fields are aching for...

For some time now, women have been statistically underrepresented in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.This trend is particularly troubling, as STEM fields are aching for...

Persistent Sexual Harassment Is a Primary Reason Women Leave STEM (jezebel)
“The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent,” Hope Jahren writes in a recent essay...

Then, a month ago, she wrote and asked me what to do. She forwarded an email she had received from a senior colleague that opened, “Can I share something deeply personal with you?” Within the email,...

More on gender bias in academia and, in this case, STEM subjects again. (See also this very useful list of resources.) One of the challenges for anyone involved in this sort of equality work is to ide...

So why not try this: If academic work is to be commodified and turned into a source of profit for shareholders and for the 1 percent of the publishing world, then we should give up our archaic notions...

Excellent list of resources (part. if you’re working on Athena Swan or similar). From HASTAC. In 1961, Phyllis Richman applied to graduate school at Harvard and received this letter of rejection.Overv...

International Men’s Day took place this last week. It’s the 19th of November, a date more usually known on Twitter as “19th November, actually”, or “I think you’ll find it’s November 19th.” Like Oct...

At a recent academic conference, I stepped back in time, and not because we were all talking about history. Here was a group of men who announced they were “redefining” modern history. They swaggered ...

Abstract:
Despite the considerable advances of the feminist movement across Western societies, in Universities women are less likely to be promoted, or paid as much as their male colleagues, or even ...